I remember snapshots from earlier years, the age of eleven particularly, some images important, some alien, as if another…

She pulled the trolley suitcase noisily behind her, the girl with the purple hair and tight grey trousers.  I watched as her short legs strode forward purposefully,…

I've been watching the 9/11 programs on Channel 4  in recent days which examine the roles of different groups of people…

Hands, feet ,bones and blood, carved tenderly out of the mud.

Yellowing eyes straining to see, the mass of flesh that is to become me.

Rocking back and forth singing a song, the…

I’ve lost count of the many I’ve loved since I married, though my wife probably hasn’t. They beckon me from computer screens, in grocery store parking lots, while passing…

There were almost fifteen years in a box, represented by ever lovelier little medals, accumulated and marked for each anniversary.  The box of medals hid in a drawer.  These little awards made…

Sam filled the back of the car with as much he could carry, assault rifles, handguns and enough ammunition to start a small scale war. Already thinking of driving downtown on this sunny afternoon…

So we just moved into a new house and I discovered them in a box of things from my childhood, along with the baseball cards and Star Wars cards and so forth: trading cards from the movie…

He told her during their steamy spell she should go crazy on it and so she did. Her fingers caressed his head. She danced her…

First you have to write a novel, a whole manuscript, and then you have to let some loved ones (preferably the nice ones) read it, and then you have to BE ABLE TO HEAR THEM when they say, "Uh, wow,…